Captain Braunsfeld

Well done!

Shockingly beautiful! I want to have that!!

Looks like a fine ship to me! Tiled deck is good!

You may want to hire him. Is price is seven bananas per day, fourteen on weekends. Thanks. You are right about light blue which is not always the same. Just like dark red. But I had not discovered that in connection to "standard blue". Yepp, classic feeling intended I have old blue bricks from the seventies ... and I tend to not use them anymore. But I did not have tiles back then, so they would be newer (I thought) Anyway, you can't see them in the picture as they are underneath the boat

Shortly after arriving in Pontelli harbour, Brickinson's friends rushed to meet him. "What have you got there?" Alberto da Pontelli asked. "Some coloured glass I was given on some far away island", Brickinson replied. Toktawhoo raised his voice: "Bring this to a bank you must." Brickinson was tempted to disagree but he did not want to offend Toktawhoo who had brought him home to Pontelli. "Sure, sure", Brickinson said. "Now", Toktawhoo insisted. They saw him off at the Bank of Pontelli. "Well Toktawhoo, let me find out what this coloured glass is worth in silver." When Brickinson entered the hall no-one took notice of him. "Good man", Brickinson said handing the piece of glass to the man behind the counter. "Will you be so kind to give me its value in silver?" The man behind the counter stopped and stared. His eyes widened, his skin turned purple, red, white and then yellow again. "Certainly, Sir", the man stammered in panic, "certainly. We will do everything we can. The Bank of Pontelli is at your service." It dawned on Brickinson that the gem might be worth something. The clerk was shouting some orders to some men out of sight and started sweating. Two properly dressed employees appeared, carrying ingots of silver. They kept bringing new ingots for quite some time. Brickinson was watching with growing amazement. "I am rich!" While the silver was piling up in front of Brickinson, the man behind the counter was still sweating. The clerk cleared his throat. "Well, Sir, we are very sorry but we currently do not have the required silvery quantities." "Would you also accept some additional golden ingots? And we are awaiting a new delivery of silver next month. Would it be ok to you, Sir, to kindly wait so long until the payment is completed?" "I hate to wait", Brickinson replied (suppressing a grin). "But I am willing to make an exception." "How very kind of you", the clerk replied, almost fainting. Brickinson looked at the pile of silver. "I expect you to deliver this to my home." "Yes, Sir, it will happen immediately." "Great", Brickinson thought, "I am suddenly very rich. And I still have the second gem." Brickinson headed home. His wife opened the door, staring at him in surprise and happiness ... ... and then she saw the piles of silver and gold. Brickinson drew a deep breath. "Well, I'm back", he said. - - - The End - - - [Second Speaker] All is well that ends well. [First Speaker] Fortune favours the bold [Second Speaker] A single swallow doth not the summer make. [First Speaker] What? [Second Speaker] Sorry, I got carried away. [Voice] Will the two of you get back to work! [First and Second Speaker] Yes, Sir, immediately. Here is the Simian-Plan storyline: 1 MRCA Result April & May: Sunk and Taken by Pirates 2 Has Brickinson gone mad? 3 The End of a Pirate 4 Visiting a Pirate Island 5 A Dream Within A Dream 6 Pirate Hunter King Archibald 7 Woe is me! 8 The Black Moustache and his Green Flying Dutchman 9 ... but I have signed the contract .... 10 Now, what have we got here ... 11 The Great Escape 12 Please don't dive .... 13 The Brickinson Case 14 Island in the Sun 15 The Rescue Mission 16 Monkey Island 17 I am sailing 18 Final Chapter Soooo. The story has come to a conclusion. It has been quite a journey from May to October. Thanks for watching! Now Brickinson has to take a break. But there may always be a "volume two". The "Bank of Pontelli" is of course just a MOD of an official model. Could I still license it? And now you can see all of those pictures (in larger versions) and more in the corresponding flickr album. C&C Welcome!

Yes Sir, monkeys!!!! Huge monkeys!!! Thanks

Ah, ok, impending darkness ... then it is fine

Thanks - Great you like it!

Nice twist to the challenge!

Really good mini ships! Excellent!

I like the rigging - and I would recommend to addd something in the bow area.

Fine build, fine ships! First pic is epic, yet a bit dark.

Fine build, fine shop.

Ok, convincing.

Ok, unspoken storyline? Still pretty clear. Fine with me.

I hope that General Corteso will succeed! Fine build, fine mini ships, clever torch effects! But (now it comes): Why are the pirates dressed in their underpants? (I tried to build some yellowish troops myself - only to find they look underdressed ...)

Great build, quite enjoyable Happy to hear that it is my fault

Thanks. That means that "standard blue" does have a tendency to go off standard? Anybody else experiencing that? Yes, I have made some catamaranic modifications. And changed the colour scheme a little bit. And the fish is doing a barrel roll

After some discussion the Islanders offered Brickinson to bring him home to Pontelli. It was a sunny day. Not a cloud was in the sky. Not a negative word was heard. While the catamaran was flying over the waves, Brickinson thought about what he had been given on Monkey Island. "Coloured pieces of glass" he thought. "Great". "I didn't even bring that when I came to these waters all these years ago" "And where am I now?" "In the middle of the ocean on a strange boat hopefully heading for Pontelli". What was puzzling Brickinson the most was not the islanders but the first mate The monkey operated the sails and seemed to give orders to the islander at the rudder. This was weird. But from what Brickinson could tell without proper instruments the course was alright. He smiled and relaxed while his newly found friends brought him home. [First Speaker] Everything is going fine. People are distracted by stories of an Eslandolean treasure fleet. [Second Speaker] Yes, they are talking about it everywhere. [First Speaker] Excellent. Banana shake? [Second Speaker] Yes, please. And some music by Bananarama. Here is the Simian-Plan storyline: 1 MRCA Result April & May: Sunk and Taken by Pirates 2 Has Brickinson gone mad? 3 The End of a Pirate 4 Visiting a Pirate Island 5 A Dream Within A Dream 6 Pirate Hunter King Archibald 7 Woe is me! 8 The Black Moustache and his Green Flying Dutchman 9 ... but I have signed the contract .... 10 Now, what have we got here ... 11 The Great Escape 12 Please don't dive .... 13 The Brickinson Case 14 Island in the Sun 15 The Rescue Mission 16 Monkey Island I came across bits and pieces of that catamaran and was able to reconstruct it. Then it was actually posted in the pirates forum! You can check flickr that my pictures were there first! When building the tiles I actually found an unexpected variation of blue. Something between the standard blue and dark blue. Or is it just ageing blue tiles? C&C welcome!

Thanks a lot - it is, however, not the end of the story!

Magnificent. While I am trying to present the strangest storys you beat me to it! Your builds are fantastic - just give your minions a monkey commander and our storylines will be in synch

Ah, this seems to be a fan speaking Thanks. Beatles? Why would you think of that? Well, if I'm talking bout my generation, we can't get no satisfaction. But that ok if you're eight miles high. And no: This is not meant to be impaled banana suit guys but just insanely large bananas growing on sticks. The chicken just appear as part of the lucid dream. And as a reference to my "Golden Age of Chicken Aviation" MOCs. I fear that the bridge will not be used going further, but two bridges had to be in the MOC as reference to those good ole islander sets

Great ships, fine action, excellent photography. Everything we wish for. Is the story going to continue?

Yes, you got it. That old song...

Looks ok to me - now I am getting hungry again